{"id":129314,"date":"2023-06-30T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=129314"},"modified":"2023-06-30T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T07:55:09","slug":"annie-murphy-lana-condor-and-director-kirk-demicco-discuss-dreamworks-ruby-gillman-teenage-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/cinema\/annie-murphy-lana-condor-and-director-kirk-demicco-discuss-dreamworks-ruby-gillman-teenage-kraken\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie Murphy, Lana Condor and director Kirk DeMicco discuss DreamWorks\u2019 Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cThe movie is joyful and positive and full of so much talent,\u201d says Annie Murphy when we sit down with her to speak about her new movie, Dreamworks\u2019 <\/span>Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cI read the script and loved it so much, but then to see it on the screen, it was so cool to see,\u201d the Schitts Creek star continues. \u201cI think people are really going to like it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
The story follows awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor), who is desperate to fit in at her school, Oceanside High. The problem is: she\u2019s secretly a kraken and her and her family have moved to land to have a better life, as her mum (Toni Collette) tells her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
But Ruby mostly just feels invisible. She\u2019s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush, who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she\u2019s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach because her over-protective mum has forbade Ruby from ever getting in the water.<\/span><\/p>\n
Ruby\u2019s introverted nature is something that struck a chord with actor Lana Condor who plays her: \u201cWhen I was a teenager, I very much did not want to pull focus, I wanted to exist under the radar and fit in and not stand out,\u201d she reveals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
However, when she breaks her mum\u2019s rule not to go into the water, Ruby is forced to stand out when she turns into a giant kraken! She quickly discovers that she is a direct descendant of the warrior Kraken queens and is destined to inherit the throne from her grandmother, the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas (Jane Fonda).<\/span><\/p>\n
She also finds out that the Kraken are sworn to protect the oceans against the power-hungry mermaids but there\u2019s one major problem with that: The school\u2019s beautiful, popular new girl, Chelsea (Annie Murphy) just happens to be a mermaid and they\u2019ve formed a friendship.<\/span><\/p>\n